The Coolmore roster might be priced out of reach for a lot of smaller breeders, but they do stand Cox Plate winner Adelaide (IRE) at a breed to race fee of $5,500 and he produced a progressive winner at Rosehill on Saturday.
Improving mare Barossa Rosa captured the $100,000 Midway event (1300m) taking her overall record to three wins and four placings from 10 starts with prizemoney in excess of $154,000.
Retained to race by her breeders, the Tracey Bartley trained mare was having her second run back from a spell and scored a short neck win.
Barossa Rosa is the second winner from Androssa, an unraced Testa Rossa mare from the family of Group I HK Champions Mile winner Contentment.
A Group I winning son of champion sire Galileo, Adelaide is amazing value this spring at a fee of $5,500.
Best known as the sire of Group I winning mare Funstar, Adelaide has had seven winners since the start of the season, three of them metropolitan winners in Barossa Rosa, Torrens and Fu Ni.
